And every year, my jellybeans would have to be set aside in my bedroom for eating after Passover. Ditto jellybean filled eggs acquired on Easter egg hunts. Both contained corn syrup, and corn is one food many of us don’t eat during Passover.
I was a lawful sort of kid, so I was never even tempted to cheat, and I was never really bitter about my delayed jellybean gratification either — it was just normal, the way listening for sleigh bells Christmas eve but knowing Santa couldn’t stop at my house was normal. I wouldn’t have had things any different, then or now.
But today I thought, and tweeted about, how there’s totally a market for kosher for Passover peeps. It wouldn’t even be hard — you’d just have to replace the corn syrup with another form of sugar. (And find a rabbi to oversee the production of kosher for Passover Easter candy — okay, maybe not so easy.)
Then zaratyst commented on how they could be shaped like little lambs. And I commented that they could be shaped like little lamb shanks, and used for vegetarian seders. 🙂
But now I’m thinking — what shapes would we want to see kosher for Passover peeps in? If they existed? Which they never will?
(But if they did — I might actually be tempted back to store-bought Passover candy, instead of just making my own Passover sweets. Because at some point I realized I didn’t like either macaroons or chocolate lollycones, and finally stopped buying them. Passover has become a good reminder to me, actually, that it’s better to cook for yourself than to go with the processed stuff, no matter where it comes from.) (But I’d make an exception for Passover peeps. I would.)